Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his transiting armed war vessels steaming along peacefully in the Irish Coast drew reactions of dread from Britons.
One of their fears is that these Russian ships are running an operation to attack sensitive submarine cables crucial to the information highway. The Irish forces cannot defend the submarines cables or even their coast.
Submarine Cables Vulnerable to Russian Warships
A commission stated Ireland is defenseless to any military action, pointing out the holes in the defense policy.
Commission on the Defence Forces reviewed 480 papers and discussed with 1,000 defense force members, and they revealed there are holes. The message is that improvements are needed and cannot wait long to make them, reported Express UK.
It made the fact clear that if there are no improvements to the status of the force, that will render it useless if superior might would assault the country. But Downing Street is not laughing over such a tantamount concern.
Russian planners are looking at the Irish maritime economic zone, and the Kremlin is stationing its naval force about 240-km in Ireland's southwestern coast.
According to Irish Reservist Robert Gilbey, this area is an excellent place to stand guard over a submarine. In 2021 during summer and in 2017, a cable was cut by a Russian spy ship which is supposed to sever an undersea cable.
The Yantar was in sight at the north of Mayo and Donegal, where the submarine cable was lying on the ocean.
Vladimir Putin knows these cables carry vast amounts of data online, and electronic information is needed for almost anything; shut it down, the US and Europe would be incommunicado.
Once the lines are cut, western corporations consisting of Facebook, Amazon, and even Google will be in a tailspin. These Irish servers are unguarded and crucial to communication worldwide, cited the BBC.
Of the cable, four connect to the UK, and four to the US. Disrupting them will make it hard to coordinate.
Russian Navy Armed With Specialist Vehicle
Some Russian vessels are equipped with a robotic arm capable of tampering or severing a cable.
Yantar has a sub onboard which is robotic or manned which is not verified, also capable of using snooping devices to tap the submarine cables, noted the Naval News.
Irish forces are reportedly incapable of monitoring the coastal waters if a foreign ship is doing anything funny.
Sinn Fein's representative, John Brady, stated that ships are inside Ireland's exclusive economic zone with impunity because nothing can be done. He added they have no way to investigate any suspicious activity happening underwater.
The Irish Commission outlined what the Defense Forces has to do 'three levels of ambition.'
One of these is enhancing capabilities like radar detection equipment, improving its maritime force, military intel, and cyber-systems as a start.
Plans to have a nine ship fleet and crews that will operate double time, but it will be very vulnerable and impotent until then.
Ireland agrees with the US statement even if the Kremlin says their massive troop number is defensive, neither will Russia invade and expose itself.
Vladimir Putin flexes his options nations against him like the US and UK are fearing the worst, experts from the same countries are not acknowledging claims of their leaders.
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